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Robert Hughes

“If Australia had not been settled as a prison and built by convict labor, it would have been colonized by other means; that was foreordained from the moment of Cook’s landing at Botany Bay in 1770. But it would have taken half a century longer, for Georgian Britain would have found it exceptionally difficult to find settlers crazy or needy enough to go there of their own free will.”

Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes
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